WE32100 (was: Re: What's your coolest ISA card?)

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Fri Aug 10 22:15:32 2001

Ken Seefried skrev:

>From: "Iggy Drougge" <optimus_at_canit.se>
>> What a shame, I can't find the 32100 in the otherwise great "Great
>> microprocessors of the past and present"
>> How about an introduction?

>Orginally, the We32000, but pretty qucikly moved to the We32100. This is
>actually the CPU; there was a complete set of support chips. 10MHz, with a
>later upgrade to 18MHz (still not very fast). Used in the AT&T 3B2, 3B5 &
>3B20 machines, and also shows up in a number of other odd places (some AT&T
>PBXs, 5ESS switch, etc.). CISC architecture, designed (supposedly) to
>efficiently support C language compliation. There was a followon We32200
>chip that I recall showed up in the 3B2/1000.

What is the 3B1 based on, then?
And when was the 32000/32100 introduced?

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